Of all the topics you could've chosen to geek on...
Is that good or bad? :)
Ooooh Schoenhof's! Dang it, I always forget they're closed on Sundays :) They have a textbook there on Hokkien? I should check it out sometime.
Yeah, the problem is that every single tone changes depending on context... I read somewhere that the language is actually unique in that the tone sandhi (what the tones change to) form a cycle. It reminds me of Markov chains (except not....)
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Date: 2004-04-11 10:04 am (UTC)Is that good or bad? :)
Ooooh Schoenhof's! Dang it, I always forget they're closed on Sundays :) They have a textbook there on Hokkien? I should check it out sometime.
Yeah, the problem is that every single tone changes depending on context... I read somewhere that the language is actually unique in that the tone sandhi (what the tones change to) form a cycle. It reminds me of Markov chains (except not....)